@tmdfr.bsky.social
If you work on higher education, watch this documentary and re-evaluate your assessment strategy.
so brilliant in this documentary: the point that education is supposed to create a level playing field which selects for the brightest minds & hardest workers.
many of those minds are, by this evidence, in Kenya. but their work bolstering false self-images of North American and European people.
many of those minds are, by this evidence, in Kenya. but their work bolstering false self-images of North American and European people.
this documentary about people in Kenya who write essays for UK and US students is jaw-dropping
there’s a part where someone in the US needs an essay for her course. she goes online to sell nudes to get the money to pay the essay-writer in Kenya to write it for her
www.channel4.com/programmes/t...
there’s a part where someone in the US needs an essay for her course. she goes online to sell nudes to get the money to pay the essay-writer in Kenya to write it for her
www.channel4.com/programmes/t...
December 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If you work on higher education, watch this documentary and re-evaluate your assessment strategy.
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An excellent module. One I think all healthcare researchers, clinicians and policymakers would learn a lot from, though I do suppose I am pretty biased ☺️
Our MSc module 'Patients, Citizens and the Politics of Evidence' runs from 8-12 December @ox.ac.uk. Open to stand-alone students as a freestanding short course. #healthpolicy
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/pati...
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/pati...
Patients, Citizens and the Politics of Evidence
Examining the role of patients and citizens in providing evidence for health care research
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
An excellent module. One I think all healthcare researchers, clinicians and policymakers would learn a lot from, though I do suppose I am pretty biased ☺️
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IN MICE, but very promising.
October 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
IN MICE, but very promising.
But the existing petrol stations there are fine… 🤔
Officers wrote “Even if the shortage of ultra-rapid EV infrastructure in the district were acute, Officers consider the benefits of low carbon development and renewable energy generation would be offset by the harm resulting from poor design and not demonstrating a 10% biodiversity net gain.”
October 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
But the existing petrol stations there are fine… 🤔
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Hear hear! And Oxford UK based folk do come along next Tuesday 15 July at 1830 to hear all about these arguments from Emily M Bender @ Blavatnik School of Government (message me for details)
“‘Al’ is a marketing term. It doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase …is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies will profit from getting others to believe that their tech is similar to humans”
Excellent & uncompromising.
Read it!
Excellent & uncompromising.
Read it!
July 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Hear hear! And Oxford UK based folk do come along next Tuesday 15 July at 1830 to hear all about these arguments from Emily M Bender @ Blavatnik School of Government (message me for details)
Our new paper on fibromyalgia, work and biographical disruption www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
‘A little bit of support really, that's all I was looking for’ a qualitative study of the biographical disruption of fibromyalgia at work in the UK
Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition which can have a detrimental impact on a person's interaction with work. Biographical disruption is a lens through…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Labour, not good!
'On current policies the child poverty rate is projected to rise from 31% in 2023-24 to 34% by 2029-30. Targeted policy changes such as ending the two-child limit can significantly improve the outlook for lower-income households.' www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
'On current policies the child poverty rate is projected to rise from 31% in 2023-24 to 34% by 2029-30. Targeted policy changes such as ending the two-child limit can significantly improve the outlook for lower-income households.' www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
The Living Standards Outlook 2025 • Resolution Foundation
This is our seventh annual Living Standards Outlook. It looks at how incomes have fared over the decade so far and what may lie ahead for different groups, given current economic forecasts and the Gov...
www.resolutionfoundation.org
June 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Labour, not good!
'On current policies the child poverty rate is projected to rise from 31% in 2023-24 to 34% by 2029-30. Targeted policy changes such as ending the two-child limit can significantly improve the outlook for lower-income households.' www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
'On current policies the child poverty rate is projected to rise from 31% in 2023-24 to 34% by 2029-30. Targeted policy changes such as ending the two-child limit can significantly improve the outlook for lower-income households.' www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
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💊 New research from @bennettoxford.bsky.social finds wide variation in how long repeat prescriptions last across England, with durations ranging from 28 to 84 days depending on region, practice & software.
Longer prescriptions could save time for patients & the NHS 👩⚕️
Longer prescriptions could save time for patients & the NHS 👩⚕️
New study reveals wide variation in how long repeat prescriptions last across England
New research from the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science examined the length of repeat prescriptions for long-term conditions across England. Without any national guidance, the length and freq...
www.phc.ox.ac.uk
June 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
💊 New research from @bennettoxford.bsky.social finds wide variation in how long repeat prescriptions last across England, with durations ranging from 28 to 84 days depending on region, practice & software.
Longer prescriptions could save time for patients & the NHS 👩⚕️
Longer prescriptions could save time for patients & the NHS 👩⚕️
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We want to take the opportunity during #aahm2025 to announce our newest book in the @sshmedicine.bsky.social series ⬇️
'BRUTAL TREATMENTS: Medicine and colonial violence at the end of the empire' by Russell T. Moul
Out on manchesterhive.com May 13th
#histmed #academicsky
'BRUTAL TREATMENTS: Medicine and colonial violence at the end of the empire' by Russell T. Moul
Out on manchesterhive.com May 13th
#histmed #academicsky
May 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We want to take the opportunity during #aahm2025 to announce our newest book in the @sshmedicine.bsky.social series ⬇️
'BRUTAL TREATMENTS: Medicine and colonial violence at the end of the empire' by Russell T. Moul
Out on manchesterhive.com May 13th
#histmed #academicsky
'BRUTAL TREATMENTS: Medicine and colonial violence at the end of the empire' by Russell T. Moul
Out on manchesterhive.com May 13th
#histmed #academicsky
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Soooo...
After United Health boss was gunned down, the shareholders sued the company because its executives stopped gouging its customers quite so effectively - perhaps fearing they would be next
Nice
Hold on to your NHS
After United Health boss was gunned down, the shareholders sued the company because its executives stopped gouging its customers quite so effectively - perhaps fearing they would be next
Nice
Hold on to your NHS
"The group, which seeks...damages, argues that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing "the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve" its earnings goals."
do you have a moment to discuss the Good News of dialectical materialism?
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
do you have a moment to discuss the Good News of dialectical materialism?
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
UnitedHealthcare sued by shareholders over reaction to CEO's killing
The group of investors alleged the company misled them by not adjusting its forecast after Brian Thompson was killed.
www.nbcnews.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Soooo...
After United Health boss was gunned down, the shareholders sued the company because its executives stopped gouging its customers quite so effectively - perhaps fearing they would be next
Nice
Hold on to your NHS
After United Health boss was gunned down, the shareholders sued the company because its executives stopped gouging its customers quite so effectively - perhaps fearing they would be next
Nice
Hold on to your NHS
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Help Blueskyers!
Can anyone identify this plant for me? Found in the south of France.
Please share : it’s driving us mad !
#fleurs
#heraulttourisme
#herault
#wildflowers
Can anyone identify this plant for me? Found in the south of France.
Please share : it’s driving us mad !
#fleurs
#heraulttourisme
#herault
#wildflowers
May 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Help Blueskyers!
Can anyone identify this plant for me? Found in the south of France.
Please share : it’s driving us mad !
#fleurs
#heraulttourisme
#herault
#wildflowers
Can anyone identify this plant for me? Found in the south of France.
Please share : it’s driving us mad !
#fleurs
#heraulttourisme
#herault
#wildflowers
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Don’t abandon PEPFAR.
www.readcube.com/nde/eyJhbGci...
www.readcube.com/nde/eyJhbGci...
Nature
www.readcube.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Don’t abandon PEPFAR.
www.readcube.com/nde/eyJhbGci...
www.readcube.com/nde/eyJhbGci...
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PPIE 3-day Summer School returns to strengthen patient and public involvement in #Research
➡️When? 2nd-4th July 2025
➡️Where? Exeter
The 3-day event aims to encourage conversation and explore beyond the numbers & rhetoric of PPIE
Check out the link below for more information👇
tinyurl.com/h7zcrfpe
➡️When? 2nd-4th July 2025
➡️Where? Exeter
The 3-day event aims to encourage conversation and explore beyond the numbers & rhetoric of PPIE
Check out the link below for more information👇
tinyurl.com/h7zcrfpe
Innovative Summer School Returns to Strengthen Patient and Public Involvement in Research - PenARC
The importance of Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in health and social care research continues to expand, ensuring that patients, service users, carers, and family members are act...
tinyurl.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
PPIE 3-day Summer School returns to strengthen patient and public involvement in #Research
➡️When? 2nd-4th July 2025
➡️Where? Exeter
The 3-day event aims to encourage conversation and explore beyond the numbers & rhetoric of PPIE
Check out the link below for more information👇
tinyurl.com/h7zcrfpe
➡️When? 2nd-4th July 2025
➡️Where? Exeter
The 3-day event aims to encourage conversation and explore beyond the numbers & rhetoric of PPIE
Check out the link below for more information👇
tinyurl.com/h7zcrfpe
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Our new paper on capturing the impact of living with multiple long term conditions in routine electronic health records. Is the work lost in translation?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Capturing the human impact of living with multiple long-term conditions in routine electronic health records – lost in translation? - Simon D. S. Fraser, Emilia Holland, Lynn Laidlaw, Nick A. Francis,...
Background Living with multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs) involves ‘work’. A recent qualitative synthesis identified eight patient-centred work themes: ‘lear...
journals.sagepub.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Our new paper on capturing the impact of living with multiple long term conditions in routine electronic health records. Is the work lost in translation?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Our summer school, An Introduction to #Qualitative Research Methods, is open for booking now:
www.kcl.ac.uk/short-course...
#ResearchMethods #AcademicSky #QualitativeResearch #QualitativeMethods
www.kcl.ac.uk/short-course...
#ResearchMethods #AcademicSky #QualitativeResearch #QualitativeMethods
An Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods
The course will give an overview and introduction to qualitative research methods, including individual interviews, focus group discussions, observation, ethical issues, content and thematic…
www.kcl.ac.uk
April 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Our summer school, An Introduction to #Qualitative Research Methods, is open for booking now:
www.kcl.ac.uk/short-course...
#ResearchMethods #AcademicSky #QualitativeResearch #QualitativeMethods
www.kcl.ac.uk/short-course...
#ResearchMethods #AcademicSky #QualitativeResearch #QualitativeMethods
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This is so true @mustbemistry.bsky.social. We have seen @careopinion.org.uk picked up + used widely for many years in the NI and Scottish NHS, but much less in the English or Welsh NHS. It amazes me how "behind the times" many NHS trusts seem to be.
March 31, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This is so true @mustbemistry.bsky.social. We have seen @careopinion.org.uk picked up + used widely for many years in the NI and Scottish NHS, but much less in the English or Welsh NHS. It amazes me how "behind the times" many NHS trusts seem to be.
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Our new qualitative researcher post is now hiring. I completely understand (& have been there) that Oxford might feel challenging to apply to. But if you think this job could be for you, please do apply. And if you want to talk do get in touch. We are kind, inclusive, supportive team & department.
I’m hiring a #qualitative researcher with experience in #ConversationAnalysis to work with me on an NIHR policy research program grant, exploring the new ‘Healthy Weight Coach’ role in primary care.
More info, and how to apply 👇
www.phc.ox.ac.uk/about/work-w...
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
More info, and how to apply 👇
www.phc.ox.ac.uk/about/work-w...
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
a cartoon pikachu says join us in white letters
ALT: a cartoon pikachu says join us in white letters
media.tenor.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Our new qualitative researcher post is now hiring. I completely understand (& have been there) that Oxford might feel challenging to apply to. But if you think this job could be for you, please do apply. And if you want to talk do get in touch. We are kind, inclusive, supportive team & department.
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Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.
Airbnb’s co-founder is joining Elon Musk’s DOGE
Gebbia, a close friend of Musk, has praised DOGE’s work and defended it against criticisms on social media
www.independent.co.uk
February 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.
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Join us this half term in exploring the drawers! Pick up the new What's in our Drawers? family trail, take part in object handling and have a go at a creative craft. Free family-friendly activities on Wednesday 19 & Thursday 20 February, 1-4pm.
February 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Join us this half term in exploring the drawers! Pick up the new What's in our Drawers? family trail, take part in object handling and have a go at a creative craft. Free family-friendly activities on Wednesday 19 & Thursday 20 February, 1-4pm.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Could be relevant for researchers in #Fibromyalgia or #chronicpain especially for deprescribing agenda. @jackiewalumbe.bsky.social
The sociology of prescribing: A narrative review and agenda
Prescribing is a key symbol of the authority of medical practice, and is restricted to qualified clinicians who permit access to many medicines. Vario…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Could be relevant for researchers in #Fibromyalgia or #chronicpain especially for deprescribing agenda. @jackiewalumbe.bsky.social
Mapping the Social Organisation of Neglect in the Case of Fibromyalgia: Using Smith's Sociology for People to Inform a Systems‐Focused Literature Review. New paper from the PACFiND study out now. Watch this space; more coming #fibromyalgia #chronicpain
February 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Mapping the Social Organisation of Neglect in the Case of Fibromyalgia: Using Smith's Sociology for People to Inform a Systems‐Focused Literature Review. New paper from the PACFiND study out now. Watch this space; more coming #fibromyalgia #chronicpain
#chronicpain through an #edi lens. Wonderful paper. Keep ignoring the memos @jackiewalumbe.bsky.social
Link to final version now available 50 days free access, no sign up 🙂
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kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
February 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
#chronicpain through an #edi lens. Wonderful paper. Keep ignoring the memos @jackiewalumbe.bsky.social
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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#EfES thought for today... 💭
We are inundated with bad environmental news which can lead to apathy. Good news stories have been shown to spur folk into action. Here's a great one for our pollinators: a highly toxic neonicotinoid pesticide has now been banned 💛🐝
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We are inundated with bad environmental news which can lead to apathy. Good news stories have been shown to spur folk into action. Here's a great one for our pollinators: a highly toxic neonicotinoid pesticide has now been banned 💛🐝
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide
Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
#EfES thought for today... 💭
We are inundated with bad environmental news which can lead to apathy. Good news stories have been shown to spur folk into action. Here's a great one for our pollinators: a highly toxic neonicotinoid pesticide has now been banned 💛🐝
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We are inundated with bad environmental news which can lead to apathy. Good news stories have been shown to spur folk into action. Here's a great one for our pollinators: a highly toxic neonicotinoid pesticide has now been banned 💛🐝
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The Darnley Sycamore. One of the most important trees in Scotland, linked directly to Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley.
As the city celebrates its 850th anniversary, hopefully @glasgowcc.bsky.social can act quickly to save and care for this local historic totem. 🌳
#StormÉowyn
As the city celebrates its 850th anniversary, hopefully @glasgowcc.bsky.social can act quickly to save and care for this local historic totem. 🌳
#StormÉowyn
January 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The Darnley Sycamore. One of the most important trees in Scotland, linked directly to Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley.
As the city celebrates its 850th anniversary, hopefully @glasgowcc.bsky.social can act quickly to save and care for this local historic totem. 🌳
#StormÉowyn
As the city celebrates its 850th anniversary, hopefully @glasgowcc.bsky.social can act quickly to save and care for this local historic totem. 🌳
#StormÉowyn